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The Centre for Internet of Things and Pervasive Systems is organising a seminar on "Crowdsourced Air Pollution Monitoring in Ho Chi Minh City-Vietnam with Low Cost Mobile Sensors" from Dr Long Tran-Thanh. The event is open to anyone from across the University to attend. Air pollution is well known to have significant negative impact on public health, especially in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam, where the air pollution level is one of the worst in the world. Despite the need for detailed air pollution monitoring, and thus better understanding of air pollution dynamics, very little air pollution data has been collected since 2009 in HCMC. The only two working air pollution monitoring stations are the one maintained by the US Embassy, and another one run by the National University for educational purposes (the latter typically does not work for months per year due to maintenance reasons). However, both stations can only provide aggregated pollution data, and not with the required details (e.g., ground level air pollutant percentage, collected in real-time, or at least with high frequency). Since the cost of deploying additional monitoring stations, that together can provide the sufficient level of data collection, is prohibitively expensive (one such station’s deployment and maintenance cost can go up to £100K), there is a need to implement a more cost efficient solution to the air pollution monitoring problem. In this project we propose a new approach which combines low cost sensor technology with crowdsourcing techniques to monitor the air pollution within HCMC. In particular, we aim to set up a proof of concept collaborative project between Southampton and the Vietnamese-German University (VGU), which aims to (i) build low cost sensors that are suitable for measuring a number of key air pollutants, which will be mounted to motorbikes, cars, and buses to collect data; and (ii) develop incentive engineering mechanisms to motivate local residents to participate in the crowdsourced data collection process. In this talk, I will provide a progress report of the project (i.e., what we have achieved so far, and what still needs to be done).

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Inaugural Group Away Day for the Biomedical Electronics Group. Focus on PhD students, their projects and the Research Themes for the Group.

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Electric Propulsion Activities at the University of Brasilia ABSTRACT: Research in Electric Propulsion has been ongoing at the University of Brasilia for nearly 20 years, first at the Plasma Laboratory, Physics Institute and, much more recently, at the Space Systems Laboratory, Aerospace Engineering. Whereas, at the Physics Institute, experimental activities and numerical simulations have led to the development and testing of several versions of Permanent-Magnet Hall-Effect Thrusters, at Aerospace Engineering, only established in 2012, the Space Systems Laboratory facilities are still being implemented. Therefore, research until now has mostly been theoretical, and experimental activities are just starting in earnest. Topics that have been explored and are under consideration for future development include Pulsed Plasma Thrusters, Cylindrical Hall-Effect Thrusters, Arcjets and Helicon Double-Layer Thrusters.

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“UV-curable piezoelectric coatings” Abstract: The seminar will describe some recent progresses in the design of piezoelectric composites based on the use of ZnO as piezoceramic, embedded in a UV-curable acrylic matrix. These systems could be useful for the fabrication of wearable fabrics, for energy harvesting purposes. In particular, among the potential uses, the area of the piezocoating, coated on a fabric, could be partially exploited as gas sensing unit, exploiting the electrical energy produced by the piezo part for feeding the gas sensor, hence providing an autonomous operation of the entire device.

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Presentation Title：Time series data mining and its application on the condition evaluation of electrical equipment Abstract: With the rapid increasing of the data collected from different fields, the data mining techniques have attracted researchers’ attention. In this presentation, we focus on time series data mining technique and its application on the condition evaluation of electrical equipment. First of all, the concept and development of time series data mining technique and electrical equipment condition evaluation are briefly introduced. The general framework of how to perform condition evaluating on electrical equipment using data mining technique is presented in detail. Then, three data mining models, named TDPCR, IVDPC,CMBCF are discussed, which are used to represent the massive raw data in lower dimension, to cluster objects into different groups and to predict the forthcoming change of the target variables respectively. After reviewing these models, we move on the application case in which these models are properly applied. In the end, some future works are listed and discussed.

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Presentation Title: Developing Novel ICT Infrastructure for Future Power and Energy Systems Summary: The presentation will provide an overview of the research activities of the Institute of Energy Futures at Brunel University London. The focus of the presentation will be on the major research projects that are currently in progress within the Smart Power Networks theme of the Institute of Energy futures. Specific reference will be made to ongoing major research projects relating to the development of novel ICT infrastructure for future power and energy systems.

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Title: An Application- and Platform-agnostic Control and Monitoring Framework for Multicore Systems Abstract: Heterogeneous multiprocessor systems have increased in complexity to provide both high performance and energy efficiency for a diverse range of applications. This motivates the need for a standard framework that enables the management, at runtime, of software applications executing on these processors. This paper proposes the first fully application and platform-agnostic framework for runtime management approaches that control and optimise software applications and hardware resources. This is achieved by separating the system into three distinct layers connected by an API and cross-layer constructs called knobs and monitors. The proposed framework also supports the management of applications that are executing concurrently on heterogeneous platforms. The operation of the proposed framework is experimentally validated using a basic runtime controller and two heterogeneous platforms, to show how it is application- and platform-agnostic and easy to use. Furthermore, the management of concurrently executing applications through the framework is demonstrated. Finally, two recently reported runtime management approaches are implemented to demonstrate how the framework enables their operation and comparison. The energy and latency overheads introduced by the framework have been quantified and an open-source implementation has been released.

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Security features of microprocessors and how they are leveraged at programming languages.

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Cryptocurrency masterclass with Police